rbindlist Internal error: savetl_init checks failed

[danbartl]

Hi, thanks for this awesome package.

I have a weird crash where data.table bugs out unrecoverably (requires R restart) in all versions 1.13.0 to 1.13.3. Here is the minimal example (nonsensical, the true data has more variation and is bigger)

library(data.table)
library(mltools)
data_instance <-data.table(x=rep(0.2972973,101),transfos=0)
buckets <- 12
data_instance[,bucket:=bin_data(transfos, bins=buckets, binType = "quantile")]

Fehler in rbindlist(list(head(x, topn), tail(x, topn)), use.names = FALSE) :
STRING_PTR() can only be applied to a 'character', not a 'NULL'

And then whenever I call a data.table:

Fehler in rbindlist(list(head(x, topn), tail(x, topn)), use.names = FALSE) :
Internal error: savetl_init checks failed (0 100 0x00000135ab4382c0 0x00000135ab4a9670). please report to data.table issue tracker.

Until I restart

Sessioninfo:
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763)

Matrix products: default
Sessioninfo
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252 LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] mltools_0.3.5 data.table_1.13.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.3 Matrix_1.2-18 tools_4.0.3 yaml_2.2.1 grid_4.0.3 lattice_0.20-41

[MichaelChirico]

Sorry about that! I am not reproducing on Linux on current master, nor on the latest CRAN release.

[shrektan]

I think #4803 fixes this

@dbart79 It would be great if you can test the patch to see it fixes your issue or not.

(Install the patch via remotes::install_github("Rdatatable/data.table#4803") . Note, since your OS is Windows, you need to close all the R sessions that may use data.table, otherwise the DLL file is locked)

Thanks.

[danbartl]

Yes, I justed it and it works, issue can be closed 👍 .

Thanks!